korybing:

I’m working on a new riso zine! This one will be about convergent evolution!

The cover shows off a bunch of different times opposable thumbs have evolved in the animal kingdom (specifically, mammals.) Primates are most well known for having thumbs, but other animals, like the Virginia opossum (back paw), giant panda, red panda, koala, and pencil-tailed tree mouse (back paw), also evolved some good grabby grabbers! The really cool thing is that giant pandas and red pandas aren’t actually related to each other (giant panda is a basal bear, red panda belongs to its own group called ailuridae) but BOTH evolved “thumbs” in a unique way by using a wrist bone instead of a finger bone. This is because both animals primarily eat bamboo, and that sorta hand shape is perfect for gripping onto bamboo!

Evolution is neat!!!!!

I’ll hopefully have these zines ready by VanCAF.